Interview Questions.NET Windows Forms

1.Write a simple Windows Forms MessageBox statement.

2.System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show ("Hello, Windows Forms");

Can you write a class without specifying namespace? Whichnamespace does it belong to by default?

?Yes, you can, then the class belongs to global namespace which has noname. For commercial products, naturally, you wouldn’t want globalnamespace.

You are designing a GUI application with a window and severalwidgets on it. The user then resizes the app window and sees alot of grey space, while the widgets stay in place. What’s theproblem?

One should use anchoring for correct resizing. Otherwise thedefault property of a widget on a form is top-left, so it stays at the samelocation when resized.

How can you save the desired properties of Windows Formsapplication?

.config files in .NET are supported through the API to allowstoring and retrieving information. They are nothing more than simpleXML files, sort of like what .ini files were before for Win32 apps.

So how do you retrieve the customized properties of a .NETapplication from XML .config file?

Initialize an instance of AppSettingsReader class. Call the GetValue method of AppSettingsReader class, passing in the name of the property and thetype expected. Assign the result to the appropriate variable.

Can you automate this process?

In Visual Studio yes, use DynamicProperties for automatic .config creation, storage and retrieval.

My progress bar freezes up and dialog window shows blank,when an intensive background process takes over

. Yes, youshould’ve multi-threaded your GUI, with taskbar and main form beingone thread, and the background process being the other.

What’s the safest way to deploy a Windows Forms app?

Webdeployment: the user always downloads the latest version of the code;the program runs within security sandbox, properly written app will notrequire additional security privileges.

Why is it not a good idea to insert code into InitializeComponentmethod when working with Visual Studio?

The designer will likelythrow it away; most of the code inside InitializeComponent is auto-generated.

What’s the difference between WindowsDefaultLocation andWindowsDefaultBounds?

WindowsDefaultLocation tells the form tostart up at a location selected by OS, but with internally specified size.WindowsDefaultBounds delegates both size and starting position choicesto the OS.

What’s the difference between Move and LocationChanged?Resize and SizeChanged?

Both methods do the same, Move andResize are the names adopted from VB to ease migration to C#.

How would you create a non-rectangular window, let’s say anellipse?

Create a rectangular form, set the TransparencyKey property tothe same value as BackColor, which will effectively make the backgroundof the form transparent. Then set the FormBorderStyle toFormBorderStyle.None, which will remove the contour and contents of the form.

How do you create a separator in the Menu Designer?

A hyphen ‘-’ would do it. Also, an ampersand ‘&\’ would underline the next letter.

How’s anchoring different from docking?

Anchoring treats thecomponent as having the absolute size and adjusts its location relativeto the parent form. Docking treats the component location as absoluteand disregards the component size. So if a status bar must always be atthe bottom no matter what, use docking. If a button should be on thetop right, but change its position with the form being resized, useanchoring.

Interview QuestionsC#

What’s the implicit name of the parameter that gets passed intothe class’ set method?

Value, and its datatype depends on whatevervariable we’re changing.

How do you inherit from a class in C#?

Place a colon and then thename of the base class. Notice that it’s double colon in C++.

Does C# support multiple inheritance?

No, use interfaces instead.

When you inherit a protected class-level variable, who is itavailable to?

Classes in the same namespace.

Are private class-level variables inherited?

Yes, but they are notaccessible, so looking at it you can honestly say that they are notinherited. But they are.

Describe the accessibility modifier protected internal.

It’s availableto derived classes and classes within the same Assembly (and naturallyfrom the base class it’s declared in).

C# provides a default constructor for me. I write a constructorthat takes a string as a parameter, but want to keep the noparameter one. How many constructors should I write?

Two. Onceyou write at least one constructor, C# cancels the freebie constructor,and now you have to write one yourself, even if there’s noimplementation in it.

What’s the top .NET class that everything is derived from?

System.Object.

How’s method overriding different from overloading?

Whenoverriding, you change the method behavior for a derived class.Overloading simply involves having a method with the same name withinthe class.

What does the keyword virtual mean in the method definition?

The method can be over-ridden.

Can you declare the override method static while the originalmethod is non-static?

No, you can’t, the signature of the virtualmethod must remain the same, only the keyword virtual is changed tokeyword override.

Can you override private virtual methods?

No, moreover, youcannot access private methods in inherited classes, have to be protectedin the base class to allow any sort of access.

Can you prevent your class from being inherited and becoming abase class for some other classes?

Yes, that’s what keyword sealedin the class definition is for. The developer trying to derive from yourclass will get a message: cannot inherit from Sealed classWhateverBaseClassName. It’s the same concept as final class in Java.

Can you allow class to be inherited, but prevent the method frombeing over-ridden?

Yes, just leave the class public and make themethod sealed.

What’s an abstract class?

A class that cannot be instantiated. Aconcept in C++ known as pure virtual method. A class that must beinherited and have the methods over-ridden. Essentially, it’s a blueprintfor a class without any implementation.

When do you absolutely have to declare a class as abstract (asopposed to free-willed educated choice or decision based on UMLdiagram)?

When at least one of the methods in the class is abstract.When the class itself is inherited from an abstract class, but not all baseabstract methods have been over-ridden.

What’s an interface class?

It’s an abstract class with public abstractmethods all of which must be implemented in the inherited classes.

Why can’t you specify the accessibility modifier for methodsinside the interface?

They all must be public. Therefore, to preventyou from getting the false impression that you have any freedom of choice, you are not allowed to specify any accessibility, it’s public bydefault.

Can you inherit multiple interfaces?

Yes, why not.

And if they have conflicting method names?

It’s up to you toimplement the method inside your own class, so implementation is leftentirely up to you. This might cause a problem on a higher-level scale if similarly named methods from different interfaces expect different data,but as far as compiler cares you’re okay.

What’s the difference between an interface and abstract class?

Inthe interface all methods must be abstract; in the abstract class somemethods can be concrete. In the interface no accessibility modifiers areallowed, which is ok in abstract classes.

How can you overload a method?

Different parameter data types,different number of parameters, different order of parameters.